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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
16 Mar 2023 Acquired Nintendo's Origins
“I don't think I realized how big the arcade market got before there were even video game consoles in the home.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Mar 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Nintendo's Origins
Transcript context
…This is in 1978. I don't think I realized how big the arcade market got before there were even video game consoles in the home. I've done all this research and I did not realize how big the arcade market was. This industry, not only did it dwarf the home console industry that the Odyssey started. It dwarfed the personal computer industry. This was the main application of silicon for the 1970s for consumer markets. By the end of the 70s, the total video game arcade market is $5 billion a year, which is already by then—you said in the intro, today, video games are bigger than movies and music—it was already bigger than movies and music by the end of the 70s.…
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